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I practiced law for 30 years as a city attorney. I taught elementary school before that. I became concerned with the many adaptations to our environment that I could not believe could be sustained. How could so many rational people adopt clearly suicidal strategies for producing their needs? I spent 20 years reading what behavioral and cognitive science have discovered. I looked at religion and politics as well. The result was "Natural Selections Paradox: The Outlaw Gene, the Religion of Money, and the Origin of Evil." The book came out in 2008 and has been further edited since then. After that I started writing articles further elaborating the points made in the book. They are available on a blog.
Natural selection's paradox describes a key factor that Darwin did not consider in his theory of natural selection: Natural seletion does not distinguish between short-term and log-term adaptations IN THE SHORT TERM. Corporate balance sheets, for one thing, run in three month intervals. Short-term strategies are at the heart of most of our failures. They include such things as exploitation of other people's labor, what I reference as white supremacy. All races apply the use of class systems to assert the right to appropriate other people's labor.
I live in California with my wife of 48 years.

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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 22, 2016
Defining God Defines the major forces in the design of society.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 10, 2016
Economic Slavery This article describes the impact of the acceptance of stealing other people's labor; or the alternative of cooperating and sharing the consequences in the search for the energy needed to survive. Class systems encourage dictatorships and the suppression of many, women in particular. This was not true in ancient times. The time for a return to nurturing has come.
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(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 4, 2015
Intellectual Honesty and the absence of the Sacred How ethics impact debates and choices of on-the-ground decisions
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 22, 2015
The Unspoken Apology For Greed Identifies the central support for those who would create inequality for their own purposes.

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